A thing…is inseparable from is context, namely, its world, and from our commerce with the thing and its world, namely engagement. The experience of a thing is always and also a bodily and social engagement with the thing's world. In calling forth a manifold engagement, a thing necessarily provides more than one commodity. Thus a stove used to furnish more than mere warmth. It was a focus, a hearth, a place that gathers the work and leisure of a family and gave the house a center.
—Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life
Re-Source: Classic Texts
Articles
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The Human Figure in Art: Watch Now! by
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Contemplating the Depth of Things: Maximus the Confessor on the Church by Jonathan Bieler
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The Prophetic Metaverse of “Snow Crash” by Edward Trudeau
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Georgia O’Keeffe’s Affection for Things: Thoughts on "Cow’s Skull with Calico Roses" by Sarah Carrig Bond
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Come, Have Breakfast by Paisley Clowe
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On the Table by Stephen McGinley
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The Ritual of Vinyl by Rodney Howsare
Book Reviews
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Hyperreality: The Prison of Our Own Device by William R. Hamant
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Mulder, Frank, Hyperreality: How Our Tools Came to Control Us
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Playing for Eternity by Matthew John Paul Tan
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Bosman, Frank G., Gaming and the Divine: A New Systematic Theology of Videogames
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What Does Home Mean? by Katrina Bieler
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Gress, Carrie and Noelle Mering, Theology of Home: Finding the Eternal in the Everyday
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Gress, Carrie and Noelle Mering, Theology of Home II: The Spiritual Art of Homemaking
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